Name of the project: Telemedicine for Central Prison
Applicant: CDAC
Implementing agency: Central Prison Kannur
About the project: The Project is implemented at Central Prison Kannur, Kerala for providing timely consultation and treatment to the prisoners. The system helped the patients in prison by early detection of disease, psychiatry consultation and follow-up from various hospitals in Kerala. The system avoids the difficulties faced in treating prisoners and their security threats and transportation issues.
Objective: Provide right consultation from right person in right time to the prisoners.
Target group: Prisoners.
Strength areas: Telemedicine system for prison is a project based to have the electronic medical records of prisoners
with teleradiology, telecardiology and telepsycahtry facility for the prisoners.
Achievements: It reduces the cost behind the transportation of prisoners to the hospital and the risk involved on transportation. With the initiative we have timely and effective consultation of prisoners.
Key challenges: At first convincing doctors about the need of the system and then convincing prisoners because some of them felt that it obstructs their chance to go outside the prison. Training prisoners on how to operate the system and implementing difficulties in high secured places are the other challenges that project is facing.

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